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Cormac McCarthy: American Canticles (American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century)

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
0230612261, 9780230612266
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1151936 bytes)
Pages
208\206
Topic
Literature Literary
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

With a thirteen major works over a fifty-year career, one that includes a 2007 Pulitzer Prize, selection for Oprah’s Book Club, and Oscar-winning film adaptations of his novels, Cormac McCarthy is one of America’s best-selling novelists of the South and Southwest. Cormac McCarthy offers a shrewd chapter-by-chapter reading, exploring concepts such as the Southern Gothic novel, the Southwest border, faith and suicide, and father-son relationships. Respected scholar Kenneth Lincoln shows how McCarthy’s canticles of praise, grief, and warning mix classic, biblical, and ballad genres and cross the lyrical with the narrative. Lincoln makes a compelling case that McCarthy is our greatest millennial novelist in a time of heroic challenge and high global stakes.

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